May 2016

Deep South Departures: Fellows Say Farewell

As our time in Mississippi as ISJL Education Fellows comes to an end, we wanted to write a final collaborative-blog-post ...

Does Prayer Ever Work?

The story is told about a family gathered around the dinner table.  There are many guests who have been invited ...

Domestic Violence and Guns

Over the past several decades, we have made great progress in moving beyond the days when domestic violence was considered ...

What I Want For Validity

The week before I wrote this poem I was having a discussion with my mother about how I presented my gender ...

Jewish Goodbyes

This is the season of goodbyes. I hold my breath while listening to my son say goodbye, with humor and grace, ...

No Screens at Camp? No Problem.

Pack up – we are going old school.  Worried that your kid won’t know what to do with themselves without ...

The Land of Israel DOES NOT Belong to the People of Israel

Israel’s legendary Foreign Minister Abba Eban once stood at the podium of the United Nations general assembly with a Bible ...

The Rebbetzin-Part 2

The following Thursday was Rosh Chodesh. All the women of the town and many visitors filled the kitchen and hallways ...

A Letter to Harvey Milk

This Sunday, May 22, Harvey Milk would have been 86 years old. Although his life was cut short, his pioneering ...

The Rebbetzin

At the far end of the town of Tiflus, in a small house built upon the foundations of Torah, piety, ...